9 of the Hottest AngelList and Silicon Valley Angel Investors

August 22, 2013

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Is it any surprise that Silicon Valley, a paradise for tech startups, is home to some of the most active and influential angel investors in the world? Angels are, after all, the people who invest the high-risk capital in the early part of a startup’s life, provide guidance, and help that startup raise large amounts of money.

There are dozens of angels that are at the top of Business Insider‘s Silicon Valley angel investor list and are jointly considered the most influential investors on AngelList. The common thread that ties these angels together could in fact be their deep knowledge of the tech industry through previous experience.

So, here are 9 big-time angel investors on both lists that are worth paying attention to; their investment portfolios speak for themselves.

Senkut worked as a senior manager at Google overseeing partner development in Asia before founding Felicis Ventures, an early-stage investment company. He has funded multiple startups that have been acquired by big-name companies like Google and Twitter.

Included in Senkut’s investment portfolio are Chloe + Isabel, Mint, Weebly, and Shopify. Typically, he invests in roughly 12-15 startups a year funding anywhere from $100,000 to $999,999.

A veteran in the angel investor game if there ever was one, Kapor is currently Partner at Kapor Capital and director of the nonprofit organization Level Playing Field Institute. He sold his software company Lotus to IBM in 1995 for $3.5 billion.

His experience led him to invest in Bit.ly, Mozilla, Twilio, and Uber. Kapor tends to invest in around 18 startups a year funding $100,000 to $250,000.

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